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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

The leader of Britain's anti-European Union UKIP Party said he had split with his new girlfriend after a newspaper published derogatory comments she made about Prince Harry's fiancee Meghan Markle and black people.

Henry Bolton, 54, who became the ailing UK Independence Party's fourth leader in a year when he was elected last September, said he had ended his relationship with model Jo Marney after the "appalling" text messages she sent to a friend were published.

Marney, 25, who began dating Bolton just after Christmas, had described U.S. actress Markle, whose father is white and mother is African-American, as a "dumb little commoner" and said "her seed with (sic) taint our royal family", according to the texts printed in the Mail on Sunday newspaper. Marney also described black people as ugly.

The romantic element of the relationship is over," Bolton told BBC radio, saying they had split up on Sunday night. However appalling and insulting those comments she made in those direct personal messages were ... I honestly don't believe those are her core beliefs.From Reuters.

*What she said in the SMS was not good but i dont think it is enough to break up abeg..Besides I think she may have said what a lot of Brits are whispering sef...

Stella, it’s enough reason to break up. He might have some family members that are mixed race or married to black people. How do you think they will feel seeing his girlfriend at family occasions and besides he a leader of a party.

If I abhor homosexual acts, I will not keep a gay/lesbian as a friend, its hypocritical. If you stand for something, and your romantic partner doesn't, where's the union/harmony? This isn't a matter of opinion, omelets are better than poached eggs, no, this is a slur on a person an entire race of people and of their right to be happy, regardless of skin colour or ancestry. What she said is right up there with domestic violence, body shaming and sexual assault, its a shame if no one sees anything wrong in it, common opinion doesn't make it right.